Post Notifications in WordPress Made Easy (video)

Posted on July 23, 2012 by in Development, Tips & Help

<embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=46247528" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300"></embed>

See how quickly you can create an email subscription service on your WordPress site in the short video above.

The sum up the main features :

  • quick to setup
  • design the way you want it
  • flexible frequency: immediately, daily, weekly, monthly
  • segment your content with category filters
  • stats for each send post notification
  • switch from Feedburner, Subscribe2 and MailChimp in a breeze

We’re awfully proud of it. Why? Because it was a lot of work to make email alerts so simple!

Not convinced? Check out the 4 other alternatives to Wysija. It’ll give you a run down of their strengths and weaknesses which we tried to address in our own solution.

About Kim

I'm one of 7 guys working on Wysija. I take care of support & frontend stuff. And yes, you've guessed it, I'm not a girl and I'm not Asian. Kim is a guy's name in Norway. Read more about the team of seven.
View all posts by Kim →

11 comments

  1. Lang Elliott November 19, 2012 at 4:49 pm #

    I assume that this works only with blog “posts” and a newsletter is not automatically sent out when a “page” is created. Is this correct?

    Reply
    • Kim November 19, 2012 at 5:23 pm #

      Yup, this also works for pages and custom post types.

      Reply
  2. toadsong November 19, 2012 at 5:28 pm #

    But I don’t want it to automatically send a newsletter when I create a page. Is there a place where I can tell it to work with either posts or pages or both?

    Reply
  3. Aaron January 19, 2013 at 9:17 pm #

    Sounds great, but I already have over 400 followers on my jetpack (which I am looking to ditch because it doesn’t offer stats). Is there any way that I can transfer my jetpack followers onto this service?

    Aaron

    Reply
    • Kim January 20, 2013 at 1:06 pm #

      Aaron, we’re you able to export? Apparently, you still need to get assistance from wordpress.com staff to do it:

      http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/subscribers-23?replies=5

      Reply
      • Aaron January 20, 2013 at 5:14 pm #

        Hiya Kim. I was able to import my subscribers from jetpack to wysija. Here’s how: At the bottom of my subscriber list on jetpack was an option to ‘download all as CSV’. I did this and my subscriber list came up in an excel page. I then copied and pasted this into a ‘new list’ in the subscribers section of wysija.

        One more thing, though. I’m trying to use a new gmail account as the sender of my notifications, and have tried to set this up. However, when I try to send a test email, it’s not able to go through and I get an ‘error’ message. Any thoughts on how I can rectify this?

        Cheers,
        Aaron

        Reply
        • Kim January 21, 2013 at 9:58 am #

          Aaron, get in touch on support.wysija.com

          It’s more adapted than the comments here to help you out.

          Reply
  4. Wayne February 14, 2013 at 3:29 pm #

    Hello, this looks great, i have a site which uses magic members for subcriptions can this work with the magic members sign ups? in addition magic members creates standard wordpress users

    Reply
    • Kim February 14, 2013 at 4:05 pm #

      Wayne, you can send newsletter to all your WordPress users from Wysija, yes.

      Reply
  5. Joseph March 28, 2013 at 10:32 am #

    Very nice! I am using the plugin for some time now and I did not know about this feature!

    Reply

It's your turn to comment.

feedback
api